King has spent the last decade leading Red Giant Rights Group, a multimedia consortium that manages intellectual property for songwriters, artists, and estates.

Tattoo artist Emily-Jane, known as Inkitej, designs tattoos for Sleep Token fans based on their own ideas for the ink that they want. Her Instagram account had grown based on her work and this week it was shut down after Rico Management and RCA Records stepped in.

A new documentary about King Records of Cincinnati is hugely entertaining, fascinating and surprisingly moving.

Mass MoCA Records will release not only musical recordings but also sound art, spoken word performances, and other kinds of projects.

As a proud, independent artist, Aaron Watson has always had the mindset that he can make it on his own. He does things how he wants to, and doesn’t ever let a record label tell him what he can or cannot do. In fact, he told us that the only thing he’ll let record executives do is motivate him to put out more, incredible music:

In the music streaming era, independent record labels in Denver are helping the local music scene thrive with services like vinyl pressing.

Matthew Dear, the co-founder and “founding artist” of record label and lifestyle brand Ghostly International based in Brooklyn, N.Y., spent years as a DJ in Detroit and Ann Arbor clubs and still performs and makes music occasionally, while also being a lecturer at the University of Michigan.

Have any Wilmington artists ever signed to a major record label? The answer is yes, although some if not most had to leave Wilmington to do it.